Dates and Times of the Phases

  • New Moon Thursday, December 2 6:11 PM
  • First Quarter Friday, December 10 8:12 PM
  • Full Moon Friday, December 17 1:53 PM Cold MoonSupermoon
  • Last Quarter Friday, December 24 9:21 AM

Also in December

  • Annular solar eclipse Thursday, December 2, 6:05 PM not visible from Columbus
  • Eid al-Fitr Saturday, December 4 Islamic; expected, may be a day later where the crescent must be seen
  • Geminids meteor shower peak on the night of December 13–14 up to 150 meteors an hour in a dark sky; Moon 78% lit, 2 of 11 dark hours without the Moon in Columbus

Dark nights for stargazing in Columbus, with no Moon in the sky for most of the darkness: December 1–6, December 27–31.

Times are in Columbus time (America/New York), and moonrise and moonset are for Columbus. Each day's Moon is turned as it is in the sky of Columbus when it is highest that night (near the New Moon, that day).

November December 1937 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
28 Sunday
29 Monday
30 Tuesday
1 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:23 AM
Set: 4:18 PM
Dark night
2 Thursday
New Moon
6:11 PM
Annular solar eclipse
Visible: 0% ↓
Age: 29 days
Rise: 7:17 AM
Set: 5:02 PM
Dark night
3 Friday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 0% ↑
Age: 0 days
Rise: 8:08 AM
Set: 5:49 PM
Dark night
4 Saturday
Waxing crescent
Eid al-Fitr
Visible: 3% ↑
Age: 1 day
Rise: 8:55 AM
Set: 6:42 PM
Dark night
5 Sunday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 7% ↑
Age: 2 days
Rise: 9:36 AM
Set: 7:37 PM
Dark night
6 Monday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 12% ↑
Age: 3 days
Rise: 10:14 AM
Set: 8:34 PM
Dark night
7 Tuesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 19% ↑
Age: 4 days
Rise: 10:47 AM
Set: 9:33 PM
8 Wednesday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 27% ↑
Age: 5 days
Rise: 11:18 AM
Set: 10:32 PM
9 Thursday
Waxing crescent
Visible: 37% ↑
Age: 6 days
Rise: 11:47 AM
Set: 11:33 PM
10 Friday
First Quarter
8:12 PM
Visible: 47% ↑
Age: 7 days
Rise: 12:15 PM
Set: –
11 Saturday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 57% ↑
Age: 8 days
Rise: 12:44 PM
Set: 12:36 AM
12 Sunday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 68% ↑
Age: 9 days
Rise: 1:15 PM
Set: 1:41 AM
13 Monday
Waxing gibbous
Geminids meteor shower
Visible: 78% ↑
Age: 10 days
Rise: 1:50 PM
Set: 2:48 AM
14 Tuesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 86% ↑
Age: 11 days
Rise: 2:31 PM
Set: 3:59 AM
15 Wednesday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 94% ↑
Age: 12 days
Rise: 3:19 PM
Set: 5:11 AM
16 Thursday
Waxing gibbous
Visible: 98% ↑
Age: 13 days
Rise: 4:16 PM
Set: 6:23 AM
17 Friday
Full Moon
1:53 PM
Cold Moon
Supermoon
Visible: 100%
Age: 14 days
Rise: 5:21 PM
Set: 7:29 AM
18 Saturday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 99% ↓
Age: 15 days
Rise: 6:33 PM
Set: 8:28 AM
19 Sunday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 94% ↓
Age: 17 days
Rise: 7:46 PM
Set: 9:18 AM
20 Monday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 88% ↓
Age: 18 days
Rise: 8:59 PM
Set: 10:00 AM
21 Tuesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 79% ↓
Age: 19 days
Rise: 10:08 PM
Set: 10:37 AM
22 Wednesday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 70% ↓
Age: 20 days
Rise: 11:15 PM
Set: 11:09 AM
23 Thursday
Waning gibbous
Visible: 59% ↓
Age: 21 days
Rise: –
Set: 11:39 AM
24 Friday
Last Quarter
9:21 AM
Visible: 49% ↓
Age: 22 days
Rise: 12:18 AM
Set: 12:07 PM
25 Saturday
Waning crescent
Visible: 39% ↓
Age: 23 days
Rise: 1:20 AM
Set: 12:37 PM
26 Sunday
Waning crescent
Visible: 30% ↓
Age: 24 days
Rise: 2:20 AM
Set: 1:07 PM
27 Monday
Waning crescent
Visible: 21% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 3:19 AM
Set: 1:41 PM
Dark night
28 Tuesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 14% ↓
Age: 25 days
Rise: 4:17 AM
Set: 2:18 PM
Dark night
29 Wednesday
Waning crescent
Visible: 8% ↓
Age: 26 days
Rise: 5:12 AM
Set: 2:59 PM
Dark night
30 Thursday
Waning crescent
Visible: 4% ↓
Age: 27 days
Rise: 6:04 AM
Set: 3:46 PM
Dark night
31 Friday
Waning crescent
Visible: 1% ↓
Age: 28 days
Rise: 6:52 AM
Set: 4:36 PM
Dark night
1 Saturday